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Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx

Presented by Southern Utah Museum of Art at Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City

October 19 - March 01

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Salt lines mark the merging of saltwater and freshwater, where river meets sea. Migrations, manipulations, and transmutations of saltwater and saline bodies, however, have transformed salt into both the maker and marker of climate change. Salt lines now form the boundary between present crisis and future disaster—a line that we as humans are dangerously close to crossing. In Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx, the past, present, and future of salt in our...

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Two immersive installations by Hylozoic/Desires, a multimedia performance duo featuring Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser, form the heart of the exhibition, tracing salt lines across time and space, and into an imagined future. Namak Nazar, an aural sculpture that takes the form of a “pillar of salt,” employs science, myth, and history to express both the doom of climate change and the redemption of inward reflection. Their Piscean Premonition, on the other hand, creates an archaeological site for future humans. Serving as prophets of a precarious planetary moment, salt-glazed ceramic fish made of local materials and created with local collaborators evoke mass extinction along salty shorelines. Photographic works by noted aerial photographer David Maisel and Utah-based artist Alexandra Fuller casting Great Salt Lake as their subject provide a backdrop for Hylozoic/Desires’ installations and anchor them within a local crisis. These photographs locate the exhibition within the larger conversation surrounding Utah’s saltwater body, where extreme changes endanger its delicate ecosystems and imperil nearby human habitation.

Through the different artistic perspectives and access points presented, Salt Lines can inspire solidarity across geographic distance, connecting the plight of humans—particularly those inhabiting similar desert environs and working within agricultural economies—as they face a future defined by climate events.

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